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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 21m

We do need a lot of prayer in these times.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 58m

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 53m

Yikes.

Rabbi Mike Rothbaum @ravmike.bsky.social · 1h

you know when we tell you that sometimes the stephen miller criticism flirts with antisemitism, we're not making it up...

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1h

They are innovating in the field of stupid like you wouldn’t believe

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1h

I have rounded up everything going on re: rainbow crosswalks in Texas. Galveston became the first city to remove theirs this week. Houston and Austin say they'll get rid of theirs, and San Antonio and Dallas are holding firm: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

These Texas cities are getting rid of rainbow crosswalks

"If this really was about traffic safety, there would be data."

www.chron.com

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Weird Bisexual Wooper @goldensama.bsky.social · 7h

So this is obviously bullshit but imagine for a minute that this was true; imagine the existential hell of having to WORK IN YOUR SLEEP. Dante couldn’t have imagined a level of hell this fucked up; and hey Andy Fucknuts over here is saying it like it was goals.

We’re a deeply unwell species.

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1h

As I've said before, Kennedy filing a "sure, laws may have been broken and rights violated, but what am I, the median vote on the nation's top appellate court, supposed to do about it?" concurrence was the perfect way form him to hand his seat over to Trump

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · Sep 5

Not too long ago America had a King who regarded his subjects’ dignity as the beneficent pillar of his personalist rule.

But then he got tired and handed his kingdom to a tyrant who had no regard for the exhausted abdicator’s admonitions.

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 1h

No one is betting against Weiss. Critics aren't saying she will fail. They're worried she will succeed.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 5h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14d

Area man, who decided George W. Bush being President was more important than counting everyone’s votes, has concerns about the survival of democracy in 🇺🇸

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 1h

By way of defending Caitlin Flanagan, in a Mobius strip of conservative pick-me women who believe they are actually the only true liberals.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 11d

"They will experience the consequences of this, but we have to be the consequence." is @democrats.org message, they just don't know it yet.

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 1h

Frankly most of you don’t know enough about Jewish OR Israeli culture (and their many distinct permutations) to parse the difference, that’s shitty and ignorant and makes you a mark for a lot of edgelord Nazi shit

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Mallorie Malcontent ✨ @sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social · 29d

Don’t let the internet fool you. I was at a protest for trans kids yesterday an HOUR south of Seattle, and it was HUGE. And there was a cacophony of drivers beeping in support.

I could not believe it. Because I spend too much online and figured it’s a lost cause.

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 1h

It is disgusting for a Congressman to call for US Muslims to be ethnically cleansed. Yet I am also sad about what he is reacting to, a big march essentially saying a bunch of Jews shouldn't exist. But the marchers are rightfully upset because of a horrific ethnic cleansing. Such a mess.

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 1h

It really is not pleasant right now being a Jew who believes in humanity and ethics and human rights, but also has strong identification with and love for her people. Like being pulled apart by wild horses.

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 1h

But everyone also knows that philosophy and classics are the majors to do if you want to be in the humanities and still conservative (apologies to all the progressive people in these disciplines).

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 4h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 1h

Of COURSE Sally Jenkins is defending Bari Weiss.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 1h

Awwwww he's going back to his roots!

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2h

Donald Trump is making it easier for you to get discriminated against when trying to rent or buy a home.

Housing is out of reach for too many Americans and Trump is making it worse.

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 2h

A thing I have learned from being online since 1995:

If you're a writer, editor, journalist, academic, you have to be ready to go contrarian when you feel it. And if you're feeling it all the time, such that it's become your idenitity, that's a signal. You broke your mind.

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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 2h

The anti-Zohran crowd went from: "Zohran isn't visiting any synagogues," to "he isn't visiting the right kind of synagogues" (or to quote JG: "he isn't visiting any mainstream synagogues" [sic]).

To now just protesting that he is actually engaging with mainstream synagogues 🤦‍♀️

Screenshot of a Twitter post from @Olivia_Reingold.

It reads:
"Outside of Congregation Beth Elohim, where congregants are protesting Zohran Mamdani's upcoming speech this afternoon.

"Does anyone think CBE would invite a white Proud Boys member to speak?" - Ramon Maislen

Reporting for @TheFP"

Followed by a cropped photo of a small group of protesters outside the synagogue, holding US and Israeli flags.

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 22h

Happy birthday to Vatican II

Screenshot of Wikipedia on-this-day widget on phone home screen. October 11, 1962: “The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholi…” [text continues in app: “Catholic Church in 92 years.”]

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Jessica @jewishreader.bsky.social · 22h

And yet somehow *this* is the most wrong take I've seen here this afternoon? 😉

Bobbie Draper - Martian Marine & Cucumber Sandwich Enjoyer @nicosan1.bsky.social · 23h

Oatmeal raisin cookies are good. I will not stand by as they are slandered

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 23h

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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